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From Middelburg, five extraordinary people and organisations will receive a Four Freedoms Award on 31 March for their dedication to Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s four freedoms. The pre-recorded ceremony can be watched online at 13:00. Guided by...

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On Wednesday 31 March 2021, the postponed Four Freedoms Awards 2020 will be presented to Filipino journalist Maria Ressa, presenter Sander de Kramer (Sunday Foundation), Religions for Peace (Azza Karam), the Mayor of Palermo Leoluca Orlando and...

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The American Embassy in The Hague has published four videos about Dutch ties of famous American presidents.To create these videos, they conducted online research and entered into discussions with historians and partners of the embassy.One of the...

Due to Covid-19-crisis, the FFA-ceremony of April 14, 2020 had to be postponed. Today the chairman of Roosevelt Foundation, Han Polman will announce the new data of the ceremony in a video.He also speaks about the future: "Together with the...

A ‘Modern United Nations’. This is how high school pupils in de Dutch province of Zeeland will celebrate the 75^th anniversary of the United Nations. They will be prepared in speech writing, negotiating and debating by the University College...

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In het kader van de landelijke en jaarlijks terugkerende Black Achievement Month organiseren verschillende Walcherse partners een stadswandeling door de Middelburgse binnenstad met aandacht voor het slavernijverleden.

Tijdens een 2...

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Twaalf Zeeuwen met Afrikaanse roots in beeld. Dit bijzondere fotoproject is ook het Zeeuwse startmoment van de Black Achievement

Month 2020. De opening vindt plaats op zaterdag 3 oktober 2020 om 16.15 uur in de ZB, Kousteensedijk 7...

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In oktober 2020 vindt de tweede editie van de Black Achievement Month (BAM) in Zeeland plaats. Een maand lang is er opnieuw bij diverse Zeeuwse culturele en maatschappelijke organisaties ruimte voor personen van kleur en de rijkdom...

We received the sad news of the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Friday 18 September. During her career and since her appointment in 1993 as associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States she was a strong and prominent advocate of...

North Sea Port and a number of cultural organisations are joining forces to put a lot of culture onto various stages in the coming years. An international character and being active on both sides of the Dutch-Belgian border is what unites North...

In the run up to the 2021 Four Freedoms Awards, UCR in Middelburg organizes a special ‘Freedom theme program’. New students, for instance, will learn all about the Four Freedoms Awards and the Roosevelts during their introduction week. The...

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Han Polman, Commissaris van de Koning in Zeeland en voorzitter van de Roosevelt Foundation, hoopt dat het boekje Vrij mensen ‘inspireert helpt om in hun leven en werk inhoud te geven aan de vier vrijheden’. Dat zegt hij in...

It is with great concern that the Roosevelt Foundation learned about the conviction of Four Freedoms Awards Laureate 2020 Maria Ressa and Reynaldo Santos Jr. by a regional trial court in Manila on June 15th 2020. 

With Maria Ressa the Roosevelt...